Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Rear Skewers?

I'm building up a fixie and bought a set of older wheels on E-bay and realized the rear wheels have skewers and not track bolts. Will the skewers be enough to hold the wheel in place on a fixed or is there some part that will adapt the hubs for track bolts? Or, thirdly, am I screwed?

You should be able to swap out the hollow axle for a solid one and get nuts for it. Just be sure to get the same size and threads for your cones.

Will the skewers be enough?

either yes, or no, depending on who responds to your post.

try it. If it slips, read supcoms response.

Call or e-mail these guys. They used to make adapters.
http://www.wheelsmfg.com/

you can get bolt on skewers that do the trick fine....check nashbar, like 10 bucks

You could also run the QR skewers with a chain tug (or two).

I'm building up a fixie and bought a set of older wheels on E-bay and realized the rear wheels have skewers and not track bolts. Will the skewers be enough to hold the wheel in place on a fixed or is there some part that will adapt the hubs for track bolts? Or, thirdly, am I screwed?

skewers bad...not a good idea

If your gonna go with the skewers, make sure they're steel and crank down on 'em pretty good. I ran a steel skewer for a couple of months with no slippage. If you're still questioning it, go with the solid axle ad track nuts. But even with those you may get slippage so you may also want to get some tensioners while you're at it.

Before I got my new hubs I ran skewers for a few months. I had a small amount of slippage and tightened them up every couple of weeks. I probably wouldn't have had to tighten them that often, but I'm always pulling my rear wheel for cleaning, maintenance, etc. Skewers should be fine. (Even Sheldon Brown says skewers are fine on his website.

As mentioned before, if you want to go get bolts without replacing the axle look here. (http://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?category=135&subcategory=1175&brand=&sku=8197&storetype=&estoreid=&pagename=)

A note: Skewers are fine unless you intend to skid a lot. I ran some QRs for a bit and found that I could only get two or three good skids before I had to tighten up the chain. With the chain tugs it was better, but bolts were the best solution.

i've run QRs with hardly problems... also, if you keep the QR axles you could get the kryptonite skewers...

you could get the kryptonite skewers...

Which are even more difficult to crank down.

But easier to open with a ball-point.